05/18/2025
Last month on April 26th, we hosted an amazing outreach/townhall event at the beautiful Alief Neighborhood Center. In partnership with Harris County, Children at Risk, and County Commissioner Lesley Briones, Pct. 4, we promoted a historic, community-led initiative that pours $1.75M into improving the quality of care within child care deserts in the Southwest Harris County Precinct 4 region, called Early Learning Quality Network (ELQN). VNTW is aiming to service Alief, Sharpstown, Gulfton, Braeburn, and Westwood. So many community members from children, parents, to child care providers came out to learn about the program and how people, like them, chose what to do with the funding. The event was jam packed with information and FUN! As parents earned free toys and goodies, the kids were having a blast with bounce house, face painters, magicians, photo booth, and DJ! We were honored to have County Commissioner Lesley Briones and her office come to support the event and guest speaker, Chief of Staff For Commissioner Briones, Alice Lee speak to the community members. If you are a parent or provider of kids 0-8 years old, we strongly suggest you click on the link below to sign up for the ELQN newsletter to get up to date information as the program has already begun to roll out!
https://childrenatrisk.org/elqn/
. Video Cred: Ahmed Eisa
